Autumn 1942 - End of Turn
Monty goes on the offensive attacking Panzer Army Afrika in and around Bardia. The 8th army is victorious, but Rommel's skillful defense inflicts punishing casualties on the British. So, while they took the ground, Monty withdraws his battered army back into Egypt as more Axis reinforcements land at Benghazi. Bloody, bloody battle for the British - I'm not sure the Germans missed with a single unit.
In the South of Russia, Manstein withdraws from his drive on Baku to shore up his Northern flank that was being threatened by Vatutin's Stalingrad Front. An Italian-German Mountain corps drives the Russians out of Novosibirsk and Timoshenko liberates Grozny.
In central Russia, Koniev concentrates reinforcements around Voronezh as a Hungarian mechanized corps exploits a gap in the Russian lines to wreak (temporary) havoc in the Soviet rear. In the North, Vasilevsky drives the Germans back from the gates of Leningrad and liberated Pskov.
In Western Europe, the Allies have concentrated a significant force in and around Gibraltar. The British have managed to keep the German surface fleet bottled up in the Bay of Biscay by sending in the Royal Navy for the last two turns to blockade them - despite Axis are superiority. Cunningham has been lucky so far in not losing any major ships from the Axis airpower and the maneuver, while risky, has kept Allied shipping lanes free of German cruisers and battleships. German u-boats, however, continue to create problems for Allied shipping in the North Atlantic.